Extract text from Virt-A-Mate assets (VAR)
To convert VAR assets to another format, you need Virt-A-Mate or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Compressed Asset Package" file type, you need software like Virt-A-Mate or a similar tool.
A .VAR file is primarily a Virt-A-Mate asset file utilized by the adult VR sandbox game Virt-A-Mate (VaM). It serves as a consolidated package containing 3D models, textures, morphs, clothing, and scene data. Less commonly, it acts as a generic Variable Data File for programming or database storage.
Because the game developer uses a proprietary extension, .VAR files are restricted to the VaM ecosystem. This is a significant disadvantage. Users cannot natively preview the 3D models or access the internal JPG and PNG textures using standard desktop tools. Furthermore, these files frequently exceed several gigabytes, making them frustrating to share, organize, or modify.
The most practical conversion target for a .VAR file is a standard ZIP archive. Under the hood, a VaM .VAR file is simply a standard compressed archive using Deflate compression. Standard online converters fail to process this file because they do not recognize the extension and mistakenly treat it as an unknown binary format.
Because this is a closed, game-specific format, it is often difficult to open directly. Our system bypasses the misleading extension, detects the underlying ZIP structure, and allows you to extract the embedded assets and configuration files without needing the original game.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted VAM, VMB, VAR, RAR, VMI, ZIP, TXT, VER, MONETIZATIONVARS, VD0, VAB, DAT and VAP files.
If you want to convert VAR file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Virt-A-Mate or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to VAR, try Virt-A-Mate or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VAR converter.